Best TV Show Theme Songs.

[Chino]

Pete & Pete
The Simpsons
House of Cards
The X-Files
American Horror Story

[puppyonacid]

Knight Rider
The Sopranos

I always liked Star Trek Voyager too

[Bolsters]

The A-Team

[BlobVanDam]

Too many to remember, but as a start from looking at my collection-

Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis
Transformers G1
The A-Team
Star Trek TOS / TNG
Doctor Who
Metalocalypse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original cartoon, early seasons)

oh and The Golden Girls.

[hefdaddy42]

Simon & Simon
Magnum P.I.
The Greatest American Hero

[puppyonacid]

+1 for Magnum and Dr. Who!

[Zydar]

oh and The Golden Girls.

Thank you for being a friend

[puppyonacid]

I always quite liked Cheers. Could be nostalgia I spose.

[BlobVanDam]

I always quite liked Cheers. Could be nostalgia I spose.

Nah, that's just a great theme. I'm not really a fan of the show, but that's no doubt a classic.

[hefdaddy42]

Yep, great stuff.

[puppyonacid]

Not sure I'd really want to go anywhere that everybody knows my name. I'd be paranoid about what else they know 

[AngelBack]

One for the oldsters...M*A*S*H*

[Polarbear]

So many great choices!.... Also Miami Vice.

[Chino]

I especially like Happy Days because it's the only show I know of that had two different theme songs.

[hefdaddy42]

I especially like Happy Days because it's the only show I know of that had two different theme songs.

Yeah, there you go.

Also, the military show Tour of Duty - it used Paint It Black as its theme song.

[Lynxo]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original cartoon, early seasons)

Oh, HELL yeah!  I've covered this one with my band many times. 

[BlobVanDam]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original cartoon, early seasons)

Oh, HELL yeah!  I've covered this one with my band many times. 

That. Is. Awesome.

[Bolsters]

One for the oldsters...M*A*S*H*

I was thining of this one too.

[Kotowboy]

Knight Rider.
Airwolf.
Doctor Who.
The IT Crowd.
Father Ted.
Star Trek DS9.

[hefdaddy42]

Friday Night Lights (Explosions In The Sky FTW)

[Big Hath]

there's the A-Team, then there's everything else as far as sitcoms/dramas go

but I also like
Magnum P.I.
Simon & Simon
Sanford & Son
WKRP in Cincinnati (including the closing theme)
Cheers
M*A*S*H
The Greatest American Hero
Welcome Back Kotter


But, if the Olympics count, John Williams' Olympic Fanfare and Theme immediately becomes my #1.

[Randaran]

Game of Thrones (though South Park tried very hard to ruin this one)
Certain variations of the Doctor Who theme

Revolutionary Girl Utena
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Steins;Gate
Future Diary (first OP; in this case, the song is much better than the actual show )

Among many others; I tend to love anime theme songs, and there are several live action examples that I cannot remember the names of.

[hefdaddy42]

HBO has always done a good job with their shows and their theme songs.

Just among recent shows:

True Detective
Game of Thrones
The Newsroom

Veep's is so short it almost doesn't count, but it's nice.  I don't remember the song for Silicon Valley, but that was a hilarious show that everyone should watch.

[bosk1]

The Rockford Files.
Sanford & Son.

[KevShmev]

Hunter (the one around Season 3 or 4 - perfect for an 80s cop show set in LA)

[Big Hath]

there's the A-Team, then there's everything else as far as sitcoms/dramas go

but I also like
Magnum P.I.
Simon & Simon
Sanford & Son
WKRP in Cincinnati (including the closing theme)
Cheers
M*A*S*H
The Greatest American Hero
Welcome Back Kotter


But, if the Olympics count, John Williams' Olympic Fanfare and Theme immediately becomes my #1.

forgot a recent one.

I love the electronic theme for Halt And Catch Fire

[Tick]

Sanford and Son
Miami Vice
Starsky and Hutch

[TempusVox]

MASH
Sanford and Son
The Jeffersons
Big Bang Theory
Sherlock
Gilligans Isle
Hogans Heroes
Petticoat Junction
F Troop

Edit: Nearly forgot...Mr. Rogers neighborhood. (Little known fact, my mom while studying voice, sang in an exchange one summer at Dartmouth where he was studying music, and they went out a few times. She sang while he accompanied her on piano once. Wish we'd had a tape of that. She returned to university in the fall, and heard from him twice after. The first was when she first sang with the NY Met, he sent her yellow roses and a card; and the second was he sent a card when I was born. My mom is no longer with us, she died at 47. But I still have both those cards. My father, the Colonel HATED that show when I was little, and it was years later before I understood why. I loved Mr. Rogers.  )

[Dark Castle]

Law & Order

[TioJorge]

Muggles:
True Detective

I'm just gonna put that one since it's my favorite and the only one that came to mind. I dislike most openings for shows.

Otaku:
Attack On Titan (the first is my favorite, but S2 has a pretty neat opening too)
Code Geass
Death Note (both)
FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Most of them)

[wkiml]

Barney Miller  ( that bass)

Rockford Files

Hawaii five 0 . the original

[hefdaddy42]

Night Court, bitches.

[Dr. DTVT]

Night Court, bitches.

Yes.  I'll add a more obscure 80s show that was just too awesome for it's time: Sledge Hammer!  I used the theme song as a ringtone a few years ago.

[hefdaddy42]

I remember the show, but not the theme song.

"Guns don't kill people -"
"I know, I know.  People kill people."
"No, bullets kill people."

[Genowyn]

Nothing to add in the non-anime vein but:

Mawaru Penguindrum (esp the first season, absolutely beautiful)
Mushishi
Cowboy Bebop
Baccano
Really bad anime with great OP: Mnemosyne